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The introduction presents an outline of the book together with a brief discussion of other ‘federal’ interpretations of the EU. The main argument of the book is that the EU is a federal union of states, or what this book calls a federation. The federation is a political union of states, founded on a federal and constitutional compact between the Member States, that does not constitute a new federal state. The federation transcends the flawed ‘statist’ distinction between ‘federal’ and ‘confederal’ that still dominates the scholarship on federalism and the EU. The federation is a discrete form of political association on a par with, though distinct from, the other political forms of modernity, that is, the empire and the state.

Author

Signe Rehling Larsen

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

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Updated

2026-03-14